James Voorhies is an American curator and historian of modern and contemporary art. He has authored several books including Postsensual Aesthetics: On the Logic of the Curatorial (MIT Press, 2023) and Beyond Objecthood: The Exhibition as a Critical Form since 1968 (MIT Press, 2017); he is coeditor of a two-volume catalogue raisonné of the work of American artist Tony Smith, and editor of two companion volumes of essays and projects related to Smith (all MIT Press, 2024–2025).Voorhies is based New York, has taught at Bennington College and Harvard University, and holds a PhD in modern and contemporary art history from the Ohio State University, USA.
Sarah Auld has been the director of the Tony Smith Estate since 1990. Her responsibilities include the oversight of the artist's archive, which holds over 2000 drawings and sketches as well as maquettes for sculptures, architectural models, and Smith's writings and correspondence.
John Keenen is the cofounder and director of the architectural practice Keenen/Riley (K/R) in New York City. Keenen has taught, lectured, and exhibited work at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Parsons School of Design, among others. He curated the architecture section of the retrospective Tony Smith: Architect Painter Sculptor at the Museum of Modern Art.
Christopher Ketcham previously served as the Public Art Curator for MIT List Visual Art Center and received his Ph.D. in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Art from MIT in 2018, where he conducted research on Tony Smith's work.
Cynthia Davidson is an architecture editor and critic based in New York City. She is the founding editor of Log: Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City and editor of the Writing Architecture Series books published by the MIT Press. Both publication programs are projects of the Anyone Corporation, a nonprofit architecture think tank she has directed since 1991.
